Female Empowerment in Solar

You got to love FEMALE GREEN CREATION Magic Powers! Photos of the all female workforce behind Ener-G-Africa's newly opened 20MW solar panel assembly plant in Ndabeni, Cape Town.

At the grand opening of Ener-G-Africa, Africa's only all-female solar panel assembly plant, based in Ndabeni, Cape Town. That's right, all the ground staff at this factory are females from previously disadvantaged communities.

They are also the only German TÜV (Technischer Überwachungsverein, English translation: Technical Inspection Association) certified tier-one small solar panel manufacturer in the world.

Well done to GreenCape 's Lisa Johansson for facilitating this $2.1million investment into the Mother City!

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